Guard your goats, the chupacabra may be real

El Chupacabra has been the stuff of folklore and farmers' nightmares for years, but a documentary aired by the Science Channel seems to suggest the mythical creature could be more fact than fiction.

The documentary featured a Texas nutritionist and rancher named Phylis Canion who claims to have captured the beast that slaughtered 28 of her chickens in 2007.

"What was the most unusual was that each time we found a chicken dead, it was opened up anywhere in the throat area and it appeared that all the blood was out of it," Canion said during the series premiere of "The Unexplained Files" on Saturday.

Some are claiming the questionable creature is a canine with mange, but Canion insists that's not the case. DNA tests show the "blue dog," as its been dubbed, is half coyote and half Mexican wolf with three toes on its front paws, piercing blue eyes, blue-tinted skin and two pouches on the sides of its tail.

Canion's specimen is the only that's been captured although people in Texas and Oklahoma say they've spotted it in the past.

So is the chupacabra real? Who knows, but maybe Science Channel producers will come to Florida for their next episode and investigate the Myakka skunk ape.